Many weavers (and even some nonweav-ers) can name at least a few textile-related historical events: the invention of Eli Whitney's cotton gin or Jacquard's mechanized loom, the progenitor of today's computers. But how many know that textiles spurred the Neolithic Revolution in agriculture, that weaving developed in tandem with mathematics, that a silkworm disease set Louis Pasteur on the path to his great medical discoveries, and that a sixteenth-century English curate's sock-knitting machine is inspiring the cutting-edge 3D printers of today?
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